Been practicing off and on around an hour a day. Found a website called drummerworld that has some good resources on it. Found a video by New Orleans drummer Stanton Moore. He demonstrates the use of sticking RRLRRLRL and I started practicing that with fabulous results. He has three books out with DVD that deals with the history of New Orleans beats and how they apply to funk and jazz-fusion. Exciting stuff. I ordered two of them. They should arrive by end of next week.

Also found another website called icanplaydrums.com. This is an ecommerce site where this guy is selling some sort of software drumming lesson. Looks okay, but only works with PC. Ech! As an incentive, however, he offers over 60 lessons free. First few have been helpful in helping correctly set up the drums and some basic holding and sticking fundamentals.

Hope to get a band going within the next three months. However, Mardi Gras time is here and there’s lots to do.